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Steven D. Goodman, co-director of
Asian and Comparative Studies, received
his Ph.D. (1984) in Far Eastern Studies
from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
He has lectured and taught Buddhist philosophy
and comparative religion at the University
of California at Berkeley and Santa Barbara,
Rice University, the Graduate Theological
Union, Nyingma Institute, and Naropa Institute.
In 1994, Steven was awarded a Rockefeller
Fellowship at Rice University Center for
Cultural Studies for the study of Tibetan
mystical poetry. He is the co-editor of
Tibetan Buddhism: Reason and Revelation,
a source book for the study of Tibetan
philosophical and visionary literature
(SUNY Press, 1992), and author of "Transforming
the Causes of Suffering" in Mindfulness
in Meaningful Work (Parallax Press,
1994).
Steven is interested in the broad issues
of comparativism and cross-cultural interpretation.
His specialty is the Indo-Tibetan influenced
forms of Mahayana and Vajrayana (tantric)
Buddhism in traditional rural Himalayan
settings and in contemporary urban settings.
Steven's research and travels in Afghanistan,
Iran, India, Ladakh, Nepal, and Bhutan have
furthered his study of the social context
of East-West contact, particularly the effects
of modernization on the adaptation and survival
of Buddhist traditions.
Asian
and Comparative Studies Program
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